BRILLIANT OPERA COLLECTION
Brilliant Classics has launched an extensive new Opera Collection with 35 titles that will appeal to classical collectors as well as new opera enthusiasts.
Many of these releases are award winners and will be instantly recognizable to consumers as classics. Among the highlights of the first set are the famous 1953 recording of Tosca, the title role immortalised by Maria Callas; Elisabeth Schwarzkopf as the Marschallin in Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier under Herbert von Karajan, the most nobly affecting Isolde on record, Kirsten Flagstad; Tito Gobbi as the tragic hunchback Rigoletto and crack French ensemble Les Musiciens du Louvre with Marc Minkowski in Rameau.
With operas ranging from the Baroque to the twentieth century, the well known to the neglected, this new series has something for everyone. Alongside the legendary recordings of Tosca, Norma and Tristan und Isolde, the versions of Purcell’s King Arthur, Rameau’s Anacréon and Schubert’s Die Freunde von Salamanka are some of the very few available on CD.
